Posted on 09/17/2009 11:22:36 AM PDT by MindBender26
A legal advocacy group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s actively opposed conservative Robert H. Bork's nomination to the high court calling him a "threat" to the "civil rights of the Latino community."
The Senate went on to reject President Reagan's nominee in 1987.
The revelation is included in 350 pages of documents the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund delivered to the senators late Tuesday evening.
Judge Sotomayor worked for PRLDEF in various capacities from 1980 until she became a federal judge in 1992, spending most of her time as a board member.
The documents, which the group's lawyers have said include relevant information about Judge Sotomayor's time there, also show the fund did legal work for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN. During the 2008 presidential election, ACORN came under fire after allegations of voter registration fraud.
Now called LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the group also has supported legalized abortion and called the death penalty racist in previously released documents.
Back in 1987, Judge Bork's nomination to the court was so beaten back by Democratic senators, including then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, that being rejected for confirmation to the high court came to be referred to as being "borked."
The depth of Judge Sotomayor's work with the PRLDEF remains largely unclear. The PRLDEF frequently joins in lawsuits and files amicus briefs in the Supreme Court.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Why did not information of this come out during the confirmation process?
I guess they had a hard time finding the right room during her confirmation hearings?
Rotten to the bottom like a tooth needing a root canal
Just learned this was a July article, but with current info on ACORN, this becomes very important again.
Isn't that correct terminology?
Would it have mattered?
Same reason the birth certficate didn’t. Same reason the fringe media wouldn’t show the 9-12 March by millions on Washington...
Now there’s no way of knowing, is there?
More Treason from this Filth.
Why did not information of this come out during the confirmation process?”
Because this is the administration of “Transparency”.
Why did not information of this come out during the confirmation process?”
Because this is the administration of “Transparency”.
My powder is dry - there’s a revolution a brewing in the good ole U.S. of A.
So important that it needed to be said twice ;o)
Can she be “recalled” ??????
And since when does Puerto Rico get a say as to who we put on our supreme court??
Has a Supreme Court Justice ever been impeached?
Doubt this would have changed the mind of Lindsey Graham (R-Guadalajara).
Is there any way confirmation can be cancelled?
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